Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stable was mucked out properly only once a year , in winter . |
| 2 | Most often she stands with the left foot forward ( a borrowing no doubt from the kouros , but it is not like his a full stride , rather so short a step as to seem like a dance-motion ) , left hand pulling the skirt to the side and letting a swag hang free , right forearm raised forward with an offering . |
| 3 | To some extent it is fair to ask who is the play 's author : the writer , the company or the director producing the play , or perhaps most properly a collaboration between these three ? |
| 4 | Yeah , they would be er erm , I think they would , would be more like er , see of course when we came back here to Stoke er I mean that severed relations with them so to speak apart from like say letters , they did use , used to write I remember getting letters and we 'd send letters , perhaps only twice a year , but I can remember them mentioning . |
| 5 | The Australians showed just one glimpse of the sort of electrifying back play that won them the World Cup so brilliantly just a year ago . |
| 6 | Why did she feel so much more a person when she was not being virtuous ? |
| 7 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 8 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 9 | This really sapped my energies — it was so obviously just a sport for them — and I began to question whether I could go on . |
| 10 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 11 | Not so long ago a wife would have ‘ laid out ’ her own husband at home . |
| 12 | The response of the committee was that they adhered to their previous decision to allow them to do so only once a quarter . |
| 13 | Most women only have two or three abortions because they do n't have much sex — perhaps just once a month . |
| 14 | Were you surprised how soon you got into the RSC — and that you have now ended up after only just over a year and a half in the profession playing Juliet and Hermia ? |
| 15 | Unusually for Italy , Verri owed nothing to political connections for his appointment from the private sector only just over a year ago . |
| 16 | Only just over a third of sales were military and well over half were overseas , so steady progress is attainable for a prolonged period .. |
| 17 | The ruling National Front coalition , with only just over a quarter of the seats in the lower house of parliament , the Lok Sabha , was supported by the rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist-led Left Front . |
| 18 | But he 's only just over a week , remember . |
| 19 | It remains an unpopular choice , with only just over a thousand in existence . |
| 20 | Most male nurses did not share these views , with only just over a third believing they were perceived as being gay . |
| 21 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 22 | Contrary to popular belief , income tax provides only just over a quarter of all tax revenue . |
| 23 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 24 | Diaries are perhaps more often a vehicle for complaints . |
| 25 | Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control . |
| 26 | As that ability was still , in 1880 , much more purely a matter of armies and navies than it was later to become , it is worth while to consider them briefly before turning to the diplomatic story . |
| 27 | So we can find words like ‘ tonight ’ , ‘ canary ’ with an before , but medially and finally , as in words like ‘ threaten ’ , ‘ threatening ’ , we find much more commonly a syllabic : , . |
| 28 | See it 's very rare , it 's only probably once a month . |
| 29 | Typically , the Government have had the courage to concede by implication that they have lost confidence in what they legislated for so confidently just a short time ago . |
| 30 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |